_To conclude, it must be granted, that as the Return of that small Number of Persons from a Country so remote and through so many Dangers, is a visible Effect of the Divine Protection; so it is also an Effect of Heavenly Justice to have preserv’d those Witnesses, and to have brought them Home into Monsieur_ de la Sale’s _Country, to retrieve his Reputation, which had been sully’d by his Enemies_.
_Monsieur_ de la Sale _would have been taken for a Dreamer, and even for an Impostor; his Enterprize had been condemn’d, and his Memory blasted; but God would not permit the Honour of a Man of such singular Merit to suffer; it pleas’d him to preserve and bring Home unquestionable Witnesses, who, by Word of Mouth and other undoubted Proofs of the notable Discoveries made by Monsieur_ de la Sale, _have stopp’d the Mouths of his Enemies, and made out the Truth of what has been asserted at the Beginning of this Discourse_, viz. _that Monsieur_ de la Sale _only wanted good Fortune to secure him the Title of a great Man and a renowned Traveller_.
Whereas all Gentlemen ought to fit themselves betimes for those Employments which naturally fall to their Share, preferable to their Fellow Subjects; and that they who design in particular to serve their Prince Abroad, are obliged to understand the Interests and Pretentions of Foreign States, as well as the Laws and Constitution of their own Country: It has been judg’d very serviceable, by Persons of great Experience, to have the most celebrated Monsieur Wicquefort’s Ambassador translated into the English Tongue, as being the only Book that perfectly exhausts this Matter, little being written on the Subject by other Nations in Comparison of the Italians, whose Books are too defective and abstracted for common Practice. Proposals will shortly be published, for printing the said Book by Subscription, by the Undertaker Bernard Lintott between the two Temple-Gates.
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